Advances in seafloor monitoring have opened up an unprecedented ... articles that document the cycle of inflation and deflation, lava flows, and growth and collapse of two volcanoes beneath ...

In 2022, researchers aboard the E/V Nautilus made a discovery on the floor of the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii. While surveying the Liliʻuokalani Ridge in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, ...

Meanwhile, this octopus and sea anemone have found a very nice home near the anchor point for another ocean sensor. Who knows what strange things we'll find next!

Beneath the seafloor on the East Pacific Rise ... The white worms were crammed between slabs of solidified lava along the East Pacific Rise, located near the Galápagos Islands off the coast ...

Bottom trawling for fish like sole and crustaceans and dredging to maintain harbors disrupts the seafloor, causing a cascade of chemical changes that reduce the ocean’s ability to sop up climate ...

These formations, composed of calcareous algae and various marine organisms, create rigid structures on the seafloor that, over time, form a circular arrangement. It was photographer and biologist ...

As part of the ongoing effort, a NASA-supported team recently published one of the most detailed maps yet of the ocean floor, using data from the SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography ...